my roomates and i have four computers around the house, 2 laptops, two desktops.
one of the laptops, and one of the desktops is mine..

strangely, i have not configured samba on my laptop, but my roommates can see it on thier network, and access my home folder.

but on my desktop i have configured samba, (to the best of my ability) and they can see it, but cant access it..
whats the deal?

also how do i view their shares??

ive read over a TON of samba documentation on the O'reilly samba website. i think i may be blind.

or maybe just dumb?

what do i need to do?


--i

if they can view your shares then you DO already have samba running. you sound quite confused about what you're trying to do.... maybe you've created a new smb.conf file from scratch in a different location? the default should be /etc/samba/smb.conf but it could equally be /etc/smb.conf and a couple of other less common ones.

as for viewing shares, i expect kde's konqueror can search networks for machines like windows does, and also i know that gnome 2.8 definitely does this.

at a lower level, you can just run "smbclient -N -L win32machine" to view shares on a specific machine directly. and then smbmount to mount them.

hmmm..

yeah. ive never had to do anything with samba before, and it took me a little to figure out how to get swat running
even.. (my computer has always been the one lone computer in the house)
i would ask my roommates what to do, but, theyve never even seen linux before moving in with me.
in either case, ill check around for an extra samba configuration file..

and ill definetely check out konquerer.

thanks for the tips!

--i